WHEREAS, I have been advised by the State Director, State Emergency Management Agency, Office of the Adjutant General, that additional counties of Missouri have suffered damage of major proportions which have resulted in injury to persons and damages to and loss of property as a result of heavy and continuous rainfall which has caused extensive flooding and tornadoes or high velocity winds from December 1, 1982 to the present and that the safety and welfare of the inhabitants of those counties require an invocation of the provisions of Section 44.100, RSMo 1978;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 44.100, RSMo 1978, do hereby declare that a state of emergency exists in the following counties of Missouri: Douglas, Dunklin, Gasconade, Howell, Knox, Laclede, Madison, Ozark, Scott and Stone, and that each such county is hereby declared to be a disaster area, and do hereby authorize that the approved Missouri Comprehensive Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Plan be activated and do further authorize the use of such agencies, personnel and equipment of the State as may be necessary for the preservation of life, property and the restoration of public facilities in those counties.

Furthermore, I do specifically authorize and order the Director of the Department of Public Safety, the Adjutant General and Director of the Department of Natural Resources, the State Highway Commission, Missouri Conservation Commission and the Department of Social Services, or their designees to utilize the personnel and equipment of their respective agencies in support of local government as may be deemed appropriate under the circumstances during the period in which this order is effective.

This order shall terminate on March 1, 1983, unless extended in whole or in part.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, in the City of Jefferson, this 27th day of December, 1982.

Governor's Executive Orders documents are available on this website in the .pdf format. In order to view or print them, you must have Adobe Reader installed on your computer. To download a free copy of Adobe Reader, click on the icon below.

NOTE: If you are experiencing problems opening PDFs using IE8, please place the mouse over the selected PDF, right-click then select Open in New Tab or Open in New Window.